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Status Not under consideration
Categories Feature
Created by Guest
Created on May 11, 2021

GCM Traceability with Expected Skew

Using Global Configuration Manager, where a System of Systems is identified using sub "components" where two of the sub component are variants of each other.
Some of the System of Systems requirements are satisfied by one of the components and others are satisfied by the other component (a variation of the first).
Currently, traceability can only be made to a single instance of the component (the other component can be added to the GCM stream, but cannot be traced to).
Worse, when the priority of the two components is reversed, the tool automatically changes the links from the first component to the second (which may or may not the be correct response).

Idea priority High